Planning permission for Dundee’s £130m Eden Project is expected to be approved by councillors later.

The major visitor attraction will be based at the former gasworks site to the north of East Dock Street.

It will features three venues, including one housed inside the gas holder to the south-eastern corner of the site.

The charity’s Cornwall site, billed as “the largest indoor rainforest in the world”, attracts about a million visitors a year.

Eden Project said the Dundee attraction would combine exhibits, performance, learning, play, immersive experiences, horticulture, live music, and art.

There will also be food, beverage and retail spaces.

The first venue, called The Valve, a single storey entrance exhibition building to the west of the site, will include a café with seating areas.

The second venue, The Lush Bunker is inside the gas holder and will include an exhibition space titled The Seam.

Eden Project said this will be the most prominent architectural element of the site measuring approximately 36m (118ft) at its highest point .

A ramp will take visitors though three different levels within the building with different themes.

The third, currently-unnamed, venue will sit over two levels and will include gallery spaces, installations, exhibits, and artworks.

Additional plans include Gathering Meadows, a space to the south of the site, which includes an external live events space with a capacity of up to 6,000 people.

The application will go before Dundee City Council’s planning committee later and has been recommended for approval.

A separate planning application for a pedestrian bridge joining the Eden Project to the waterfront will be considered at a later date.